Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
From Leon Panetta
The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for.
We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.
The Taliban is resilient.
You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.
I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.
After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.
I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
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